Melissa Cliffe

@jar_jar_mel Totally agree and writing my PhD about this. It feels like an incredibly overlooked part of an individual’s experience

Our clothes, our hair, our accessories, and our bodies in general will matter to our patients and will come up in therapy, especially if you’re a woman therapist. There’s no way to avoid this. There’s no way to escape the planet on which we live.

@heller_murphy This has been my experience too for perhaps the last year, it’s very hard to find anyone to refer on to these days

@SonjaCowling All of them are great

@DeborahMeaden Yes, has been hard to get senior cat food since January- not good for my very picky cat

Anyone experiencing pet food shortages?

@ShillerKim @UKCP_Updates @PsychologiesMag Thank you, glad they were helpful

@UKCP_Updates @PsychologiesMag @melissadcliffe Great tips for anyone suffering from anxiety

Many women face anxiety around menopause. In her @PsychologiesMag LifeLabs blog, UKCP Psychotherapist @melissadcliffe outlines how to recognise this anxiety and offers some ways to manage it. Read it here: ow.ly/WxbN50DKxpC #Anxiety #Menopause

@socandtherapy I'm really sorry to hear that

@socandtherapy I think it has a strong flavour, we were advised by our vets to start with small quantities mixed into usual food and build up from there. Good luck

@zcooper373 @Therapists_C @PsychChatter I'm in private practice and it forms a small proportion of my work, it has been helpful at times when talking therapy hasn't seemed enough to meet a client's needs. When effective it can be very powerful

@melissadcliffe @Therapists_C @PsychChatter Thanks! What setting do you utilize emdr in and how has it changed your practice?

@Therapists_C , @PsychChatter , #SocialWorkTwitter , and all of my other #mentalhealth connections: What is the best training source for #EMDR training. 2 of my staff are seeking training and we want the highest quality training we can receive. Thanks in advance!

Listening is simple, & difficult. Ordinary, & extraordinary. A way of doing, & being. We need more, & better listening. How do we describe something that is so experiential & beautiful? A bit like art, or love. How do we honour listening, & not reduce it to a list of ‘top tips’?

@PhilippaRice A giraffe

I know what will cheer us all up (or at least be a distraction). You request a gif from me and I might make it #PhilippasGifs

“All these layers of cynicism that I’d spent years carefully applying to myself like fake tan, I’d torn them all off that day." James O’Brien on why he decided to go to therapy, and how it changed him.

If we reframe “mental health” as “everyday quality of life for everybody” - we probably wouldn’t require annual reminders of how important it is. Let’s not stop promoting awareness - but let’s remember that mental health is all of us, every single day.

We are going to be wearing masks for sometime We are all in this pandemic together, but we are also on this planet together with wildlife already on the brink Discarded masks can kill wildlife Dispose of masks responsibly or better yet, get a reusable one 🙏

People Are Discussing Their Therapy On Social Media. Share Or Overshare? I spoke to @Habibakatsha at @HuffPostLife about what therapists and their clients might consider. I'm sure @aclientfirst would have much to add! buff.ly/33IJo6I

"If you are alone, the country is your companion; and nature becomes Nature, a person, someone to whom you can almost talk. You do not only walk through measured miles; you sit, dreaming, contemplating, absorbing it all, through unmeasured minutes." ~C.R.Milne #FridayFeeling

@jen__bowes @STagainstDA_ Amazing, well done

Day 1. Slow and steady 7km done before the house wakes up. #runningtogether @STagainstDA_ #enddomesticabuse #free

@Anna_Mazz @phoenixcomicuk @jamiesmart My daughters are big Phoenix and graphic novel fans and similar age, check out Raina Telgemeir, her work is great

Comic fanatics: which comics or graphic novels should I be buying for my 9-year-old? He loves the Beano, @phoenixcomicuk and @jamiesmart's Bunny vs Monkey, but there's only so many times he can read them...

@UnaCavanagh No, they give me neck ache and back ache

@jen__bowes Happy birthday Jenny xx

48! Grateful to still be on the journey... 🥳